The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hypokalemia in Pregnancy-Related Hospitalizations: A Nationwide Population Study by Chien-Wen Yang, Si Li, Yishan Dong

“…We applied logistic regression models to calculate adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) to identify the risk factors for hypokalemia. …”
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A data-driven approach to study temporal characteristics of COVID-19 infection and death Time Series for twelve countries across six continents by Sabyasachi Guharay

“…Methods We implement a set of several distinct analytical methods for: (a) statistical studies to estimate the skewness and kurtosis of the data distributions; (b) analyzing the stationarity properties of these time series using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) tests; (c) examining co-integration properties for the non-stationary time series using the Phillips-Ouliaris (PO) tests; (d) calculating the Hurst exponent using the rescaled-range (R/S) analysis, along with the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA), for self-affinity studies of the evolving dynamical datasets. …”
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Interpersonal Coordination between Female Soccer Players: Leader-Follower Roles within a Collision-Avoidance Task by Courtney A Fernandes, Grant E Norte, Sarah M Schwab, Alli Gokeler, Amanda Murray, David M Bazett-Jones, David A Sherman

“…Cohen's d effect sizes were calculated to demonstrate magnitude of differences. …”
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Role of percutaneous testis biopsy in management of patients with azoospermia by N. G. Gasanov, S. I. Gamidov, T. V. Shatylko, A. Yu. Popova, N. P. Makarova, I. V. Ushakova, O. B. Loran

“…The sperm production frequency (SPF) was calculated, as well as the frequency of transition to an open testicular biopsy. …”
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How do electronic risk assessment tools affect the communication and understanding of diagnostic uncertainty in the primary care consultation? A systematic review and thematic synt... by Sarah Gerard Dean, Joshua Feyi-Waboso, Mark Tarrant, Raff Calitri, Elizabeth Shephard, Alex Burns, Brian Donnelly

“…A thematic synthesis was performed.Setting Primary care.Results eRATs included differential diagnosis suggestion tools, tools which produce a future risk of disease development or recurrence or calculate a risk of current undiagnosed disease. Analytical themes were developed to describe separate aspects of the clinical consultation where risk and uncertainty are both central and altered via the use of an eRAT: ‘Novel risk’, ‘Risk refinement’, ‘Autonomy’, ‘Communication’, ‘Fear’ and ‘Mistrust’.Conclusion eRATs may improve the understanding and communication of risk in the primary care consultation. …”
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A Validated Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling-Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method to Quantify Doxycycline Levels in Urine: An Application to Monitor the Malaria... by Mylène Penot, Cyril Linard, Nicolas Taudon

“…The signal/concentration ratio was studied in the 0.25–50 µg/mL range, and recoveries from back-calculated concentrations were in the 96–105% range (RSD < 11.0%). …”
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Engineering Design of a Mechanical Decladder for Spent Nuclear Rod-Cuts by Young-Hwan Kim, Yung-Zun Cho, Young-Soon Lee, Jin-Mok Hur

“…The optimum decladding rod-cut length for buckling prevention was calculated. Furthermore, we analyzed the decladding mechanism for various slitting methods. …”
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The TikTok Addiction Scale: Development and validation by Petros Galanis, Aglaia Katsiroumpa, Ioannis Moisoglou, Olympia Konstantakopoulou

“…We examined face validity by performing cognitive interviews with TikTok users and calculating the item-level face validity index. Our study population included 429 adults who have been TikTok users for at least the last 12 months. …”
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Perspectives, benefits and challenges of a live OSCE during the COVID-19 pandemic in a cross-sectional study by Anne Herrmann-Werner, Teresa Loda, Rebecca Sarah Erschens, Stephan Zipfel, Andrew B Nevins

“…Means, SDs, frequencies and percentages were calculated.Results 149 students, 32 SPs and 59 examiners participated. …”
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Changes in the Parietal Lobe Subregion Volume at Various Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease and the Role in Cognitively Normal and Mild Cognitive Impairment Conversion by Fang Lu, Qing Ma, Cailing Shi, Wenjun Yue

“…We measured the volume of the parietal subregion based on the Human Brainnetome Atlas (BNA-246) using voxel-based morphometry among individuals at various stages of AD and the progressive and stable individuals in CN and MCI. We then calculated the area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve to test the ability of parietal subregions to discriminate between different cognitive groups. …”
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Is epinephrine still the drug of choice during cardiac arrest in the emergency department of the hospital? A meta-analysis by Hou Min, Dong Su, Kan Qing, Ouyang Meng, Zhang Yun

“…RevMan and MedCalc software were used and statistical parameters such as odds ratio and risk ratio were calculated. Twelve clinical trials with a total of 208,690 cardiac arrest patients from 2000 to 2022 were included, in accordance with the chosen inclusion criteria. …”
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Knowledge and confidence in managing obstructive sleep apnea patients in Canadian otolaryngology - head and neck surgery residents: a cross sectional survey by Saad Ansari, Amanda Hu

“…Descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon Rank Sum and unpaired Student’s t tests were calculated in Excel. Results Sixty-six (38.4%) out of 172 residents responded (60.6% male; 80.3% English-speaking). …”
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Shear bond strength of three different fixed retainers: Stainless steel wires versus fiber reinforced composite (An in Vitro study) by Anees Mahmood Mudhir

“…The site of failure was recorded for each specimen was calculated. Statistical analyses were provided using one‐way analysis of variance with inter‐group comparison using the least significant difference. …”
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Removal of Ammonium from Aqueous Solutions Using Zeolite Synthesized from Electrolytic Manganese Residue by Changxin Li, Yuan Yu, Qingwu Zhang, Hong Zhong, Shuai Wang

“…And the adsorption isotherm experimental data had best fitness with the Freundlich and Koble–Corrigan model, suggesting that heterogeneous uptake was the principal mechanism adopted in the process of ammonium adsorption. Moreover, calculation of thermodynamic parameters such as change in free energy (ΔG), enthalpy (ΔH), and entropy (ΔS) was carried out and it was determined to be −15.77∼−14.03 kJ·mol−1, +37.66 kJ·mol−1, and +173.38 J·mol−1·K−1, respectively. …”
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Prediction of Heavy Oil Production Based on Geomechanical Analysis in Entire Lifecycle of SAGD by Dengke Li, Shaowen Zhu, Yanchao Li, Shijie Shen, Zupeng Chen, Zhanli Ren, Yuxuan Zhou, Yanfang Gao

“…It is found that the gap between the new model and the traditional model is larger when the strain and stress sensitivity of the reservoir body is larger. The value calculated by the conventional model is small when the reservoir dilates and large when the reservoir compresses. …”
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Clinical examples of the effective correction of low astigmatism for improving vision by I.V. Lobanova, E.G. Rybakova, T.B. Romanova

“…Prescription of spherical (not toric) CL, whose optical power was calculated by the spherical equivalent of sphero-cylindrical correction, is a ty pical error when correcting low astigmatism. …”
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Measuring effective indicators for waste disposal in order to assess the sustainable environment: application of fuzzy approach by Mohammad Hossein Kabgani

“…Therefore, in the last step, the rank of all research variables was calculated using the Nonlinear analysis method. Based on the results of this study, the technical variable was ranked first, the economic variable was ranked second, and the environmental and social variable was ranked third. …”
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Green Apple Detection Method Based on Multidimensional Feature Extraction Network Model and Transformer Module by Wei Ji, Kelong Zhai, Bo Xu, Jiawen Wu

“…At the same time, in order to solve the problems of slow convergence speed and large calculation amount of the basic network model, the convergence speed of the overall network model is improved by replacing the attention mechanism of Transformer. …”
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Theoretical impact of a bedside decision-making tool on antibiotic use for suspected neonatal healthcare-associated infection: an observational study by Lizel Georgi Lloyd, Mirjam Maria van Weissenbruch, Adrie Bekker, Cecilia Ferreyra, Birgitta Gleeson, Angela Dramowski

“…The theoretical impact of the tool on antibiotic LOT was calculated. Results We recruited 180 neonates with 214 episodes of suspected HAI, of which 22 (10.3%) were proven HAI, 56 (26.2%) were presumed HAI and 136 (63.6%) had HAI ruled out. …”
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Clinical Significance of the Peripheral Blood Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in Predicting Chemotherapy Outcomes for Small Cell Lung Cancer by Gao L, Liu B

“…Fasting venous blood samples were collected in the morning within one week before the initiation of chemotherapy, and a complete blood cell count was performed to calculate the NLR.Results: The NLR in the plasma of patients with SCLC was significantly elevated compared to that of healthy individuals (P < 0.01). …”
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